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Smelters · week 4 · 1986

The long way round: F. Curdle III goes for 132

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Franklin Curdle III QB
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I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like F. Curdle III, who was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. 132 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. Out of Ives Polytechnic, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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